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| James Garner and Julie Andrews in Victor Victoria (Blake Edwards, 1982). Read Véronique Fernández's article on this film: '"People Believe What They See": Clothing and Genders in Victor/Victoria', Lectora, 7, 2001 |
Police Inspector: You idiot! That's a man!
Labisse: It can't be!
Police Inspector: The person in that room was naked from the waist down, and if that was a woman, then she is wearing the greatest disguise I have ever seen!
Victor Victoria (Blake Edwards, 1982)
It's the day after the news emerged of the death of American screenwriter and director Blake Edwards at the grand age of 88, surrounded by his loved ones in a California hospital. David Hudson's customary gathering of links to tributes is a very good place to begin to find out, if you don't already know, about the warm esteem in which Edwards was held by critics and other filmmakers.
Today, Film Studies For Free presents its own little "cross-dressing-in-international-film"-links homage to its favourite Blake Edwards film, the cross-dressing comedy Victor Victoria. It may not be the queerest of queer films, certainly; it may not even be the queerest of Blake Edwards' queerish films... But it is one of the funniest, with plenty of treats for fans of Julie Andrews and James Garner. It thus stands as a fine testimony to Blake Edwards' gently subversive powers as a screenwriter and a director.
FSFF's author first saw this film, memorably, on its French repertory release in 1984, as a year-abroad student. Alone in a packed cinema, she had the doubly funny but also unsettling experience of laughing at the numerous verbal gags as they were delivered in English, and then waiting for the French audience to laugh as the subtitles unerringly delivered a belated punch, a curious case of comic différance.
- James Allan, 'Sissies, Leeches and Sidekicks: Fags and Hags in the ‘60s and the ‘90', Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Sheraton New York, New York City, NY, 2009-05-25
- Kay Armatage, 'Fetish and Fashion in Canadian Film', TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 2006
- Concepción Bados Ciria, Political and cultural cross-dressing, and the negotiation of Cuban-American identities, REDEN, Número 19-20, 2000
- Kathleen Barbara, 'Masquerade: The Female Body in Post-Modern Films', MP: An Online Feminist Journal, December 21, 2004
- Kathleen Barbara,The Post-Modern Body, MA Thesis, Wichita State University, May 2006
- Mark Bernstein, 'Victor/Victoria: It's "Mary Poppins in drag"', from Jump Cut, no. 28, April 1983
- David Boxwell, 'Wheeler and Woolsey Queered', Bright Lights Film Journal, 42, 2003
- Rong Cai, 'Gender Imaginations in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Wuxia World', positions, 13:2, Fall 2005
- Terrell Carver, ‘Sex, Gender and Heteronormativity: Seeing “Some Like it Hot” as a Heterosexual Dystopia’, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, Working Paper No. 03-07, 2007
- Bert Cardullo, 'An Afghan Is a Woman', The Hudson Review, Summer 2005
- Gilbert Gerard Castillo, Gender, Identity and Influence: Hong Kong Martial Arts Films, MA Thesis, University of North Texas, December 2002
- Cynthia C. Degnan, 'Living on Girlboy Time: Queer Childhood Temporality and Kinship in Ma Vie en Rose', MP: A Feminist Journal Online, June, 2007
- Richard Dyer, 'Less and More than Women and Men: Lesbian and Gay Cinema in Weimar Germany', New German Critique, No. 51, Special Issue on Weimar Mass Culture (Autumn, 1990)
- Tanfer Emin-Tunc, 'Glen or Glenda: Psychiatry, Sexuality, and the Silver Screen', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 41, August 2003
- Richard Ekins, 'Cross-dressing, sex-changing and film. Fragments from an analysis of screening male femaling', Trans-Gender Archive, University of Ulster, Gendys Conference, 1994
- Heather Erin Emmens, Domestications and Disruptions: Lesibian Identities in Television Adaptations of Contemporary British Novels, PhD Thesis, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, May, 2009
- Brett Farmer, 'Interview with Stacy Wolf about her New Book, A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical', Gender OnLine Journal, Issue 28, 2002
- Véronique Fernández, '"People Believe What They See": Clothing and Genders in Victor/Victoria', Lectora, 7, 2001
- Elizabeth Fox-Kales, 'Cinematic Cross-Dressing: Sexual Disguise vs. Gender Transformations', IPSA Conference Proceedings, 2004
- Andrew Grossman, 'Better Beauty Through Technology: Chinese Transnational Feminism and the Cinema of Suffering', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 35, January 2002
- Robert Hanke, 'The "Mock-Macho" Situation Comedy: Hegemonic Masculinity and its Reiteration', Western Journal of Communication, 62(1) (Winter 1998)
- Susan Hayward, 'Simone Signoret 1921-1985: the star as sign-the sign as scar', Modern Languages Publications Archive, 1995
- Mallory Jagodzinski, Of Bustles and Breeches; Cross-Dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology, MA Thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2010
- Nicholas R. Jones, 'Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night: Contemporary Film and Classic British Theatre', Early Modern Literary Studies, 8.1, May 2002
- M. Alison Kibler, 'Rank Ladies, Ladies of Rank: The Elinore Sisters in Vaudeville', American Studies, 38:1, (Spring 1997)
- Kelly McWilliam, Girl Meets Girl: Lesbian Romantic Comedies and the Public Sphere,PhD Thesis,
University of Queensland, May 2006 - Deborah Mellamphy, 'The Paradox of Transvestism in Tim Burton's Ed Wood',Wide Screen, Vol 1, No 1 (2009)
- Olga Osinovskaya, 'Cross-Dressing in Soviet CInema: The Case of Hello, I am your Aunt', MA Thesis, Central European Unversity, Budapest, 2007
- Iva Paneva, A study of female aggression as represented in Patty Jenkins' fiction film Monster, e--PhD Thesis, University of Witswatersrand, December 2008
- Sonali Pattnaik, 'Outside the Frame: The Representation of the Hijra in Bollywood Cinema', Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Issue 22, October 2009
- Robert M. Payne, 'The Crying Game: Crossed lines', from Jump Cut, no. 39, June 1994
- Jay Poole, 'Psycho: Queering Hitchcock's Classic', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 61, August 2008
- Candida Rifkind, 'Screening Modernity: Cinema and Sexuality in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall On Your Knees', Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne, 2002
- Thibault Schilt, 'François Ozon', Senses of Cinema, Issue 31, 2004
- Sarah Schulman,' Yidl Mitn Fidl: Yiddish fictional cinema from Jump Cut, no. 31, March 1986
- Jérôme Segal and Monika Kaczek, 'Molly Picon and the Cinematic Archetype of a Jewish Woman', Cinemascope, Issue 14, 2010
- Rose T Sengenberger, 'Ma vie en rose', Writing Portfolio,2009 (scroll down to p. 23-41 in PDF)
- Karen Serwer, 'Mariposas en el andamio: Imagining Utopia through Repetition and Excess', Sexuality and the Public Sphere, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (date unknown)
- Jamie Stuart, The Business and Pleasure of Filmic Lesbians Performing Onstage, PhD Thesis, Bowling Green State University, August 2006
- Isabelle Stauffer, 'Heroines of Gaze. Gender and Self-Reflexivity in Current Espionage Films', Imagendering II, Genders Online Forum, Issue 13, 2006Georgette Wang and Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, 'Globalization and Hybridization in Cultural Production: A Tale of Two Films', LEWI Working Paper Series, Paper Number: 36, April 2005
- K.E.Sullivan, 'Ed Gein and the figure of the transgendered serial killer', from Jump Cut, no. 43, July 2000
- Chao-Jung Wu, Performing Postmoderm Taiwan: Gender, Cultural Hybridity, and the MaleCross-Dressing Show, PhD Thesis, Wesleyan University, 2007
- Simon Chia-rong Wu, 'Gender Pastiche: Thai Queerness in Beautiful Boxer', Cultural Studies Monthly, 78, 2008
- Niamh Thornton, 'Valentinas, Adelitas, Soldaderas: Explosive Women on Film', LASA, 2009
- Diane Torr and Stephen Bottoms, 'Introduction: Why Act Like A Man?', Sex, Drag, and Male Roles (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010)
- Chun-Chi Wang, Lesbianscape of Taiwan: Media History of Taiwan's Lesbians, PhD Thesis, University of Southern California, August 2007
- Stacy Wolf, 'Preface', A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002)
- Barry Wurst II, 'Blake Edwards vs. Hollywood: Sunset and the Myth of Hollywood's Golden Age', Bright Lights Film Journal, 66, 2009
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